VP nominee Paul Ryan coming to Dover Tuesday

DOVER — Republican Congressman Paul Ryan will be on hand in Dover Tuesday morning to campaign for the GOP presidential ticket.

Ryan is scheduled to hold a town hall forum at the McConnell Center in Dover on Tuesday, Sept. 18, according to a campaign official. The event will begin at about 11 a.m., and tickets will be available to the public. Details about the event were expected to be available later this weekend.

Ryan's visit will fall on the heels of a stop in New Hampshire by U.S. Sen. John McCain. On Monday, the Arizona Republican and former presidential nominee is slated to hold a town hall-style event at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 168, located at 238 Deer St. in Portsmouth, beginning at 4:30 p.m.

The region has seen a surge in politicking from both sides of the presidential race during the last several weeks. In addition to appearances by Ryan and Romney, who recently visited Nashua, the campaign organized a speech by Ann Romney in Stratham, and Romney's eldest son, Tagg, was also recently in Milford to March in the Labor Day parade, according to a report from the Nashua Telegraph.

At 42, Ryan is the same age as Romney's eldest son Tagg. He serves as the chairman of the House Budget Committee, and is best known on the national stage as the architect of a Republican budget aimed at controlling the deficit and reducing spending.

While the Ryan budget has garnered wide support from GOP legislators, Obama's campaign has hammered Romney for selecting Ryan as his running mate, highlighting reforms in the budget that would reshape the Medicare program.

A new poll says the race for president remains tight in New Hampshire, but the amount of undecided voters is on the rise.

The WMUR Granite State Poll released Thursday shows 45 percent of likely voters plan to support Obama, 40 percent say they will vote for Romney, and 3 percent say they support another candidate.

The percentage of those who are undecided jumped to 12 percent from 4 percent in August.

The findings are based on 635 randomly selected adults who were interviewed by phone between Sept. 4 and Sept. 11.

The poll was conducted by the University of New Hampshire Survey Center and has a sampling margin of error of plus or minus 3.9 percentage points.